The volatiles in flowers of twenty-three elite tea cultivars were obtained by simultaneous distillation extraction, from which seventy-nine aromatic constituents were identified using gas chromatography coupled with mass ...

This communication outlines the influence of tea cultivation on the change in vegetation through summer, winter and rainy season in tea gardens and adjoining non-tea areas in Uttarakhand hills. A total of 184 genera (57 ...

Tea has been grown in Vietnam for over 2,000 years and the custom of tea drinking has been handed down from generation to generation. At the end of the 19th century the French colonial power set up the first tea plantation ...

To understand the success story of doubling of South Indian tea production an in-depth review of technical support and information available from UPASl Tea Research Institute has been attempted. This paper also profiles ...

Although tea was introduced in Kenya in 1903, Africans (natives) were barred from growing the crop until after independence in 1963 when the legislation was repealed. Africans started growing tea under the smallholder tea ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in the elderly. AD is characterized pathologically by the accumulation of amyloid a-peptide as senile plaques in the brain. Neutral endopeptidase (NEP) and ...

Cocoa husk, cow dung, poultry droppings, siam weed - Chromolaena odorata and tea fluff are common farm wastes in Nigeria. They were used as manures as sole and in combination with inorganic fertilizer as organominerals ...

Pakistan has a long tradition of tea drinking that has now become an integral part of the country's social life. The first tea experiments were initiated in the then West Pakistan (present Pakistan) in village Baffa (district ...

Tea leaf contains very high level of polyphenols, mostly flavonoids, which distinguishes it from other plants. These flavonoids and their oxidative products formed during fermentation and drying, largely determine the color ...

Caffeine and polyphenol status in pluckable shoots of ten clonal agrotypes (viz; TV, and BT,-BT,) of 20 years old tea plants cultured under same agro-climatic conditions at BTRISS, Odahlea, were studied on three plucking ...

This is the first of the draft country reports prepared for compilation into the proposed book "Tea Growing Countries of the World", which will be edited by Nigel Melican, Ashok Kumar, V.S. Sharma, Wilson Ronno, ZenoApostolides, ...

Green tea kombucha made of sugar and single yeast was investigated for its antimicrobial activity and composition changes during fermentation. Individual and total tea polyphenols, caffeine, sucrose, reducing sugar, total ...

Today's world needs a super antioxidant. Researches mainly aim to find new sources of plant world polyphenols, which accessible from everyday food could influence unfavorable aging processes in human body. There are many ...